Title

RAF Swinderby [concept]

Description

RAF Swinderby was in Lincolnshire, eight miles south-west of Lincoln. It opened in August 1940 as part of 1 Group Bomber Command when it was home to the first two Polish Squadrons with the RAF. The runways were concreted in November 1941, and it reopened in June 1942 as part of 5 Group. After the war is was used as a training establishment until it closed in 1993.
It was home to: 300 Squadron, 301 Squadron, 50 Squadron, 455 Squadron and 1660 Heavy Conversion Unit
Aircraft flown included: Battle, Wellington, Oxford, Hampden, Lancaster, Halifax, Stirling, Manchester, Harvard.
Wartime losses: 319

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Contributor

Hugh Donnelly

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RAF Wigsley [concept]

Description

RAF Wigsley was in Nottinghamshire, eight miles west of Lincoln. Construction began in 1941 and it opened in February 1942 as a satellite of RAF Swinderby in 1 Group Bomber Command. 455 squadron briefly operated from Wigsley before the station became the home of a Heavy Conversion Unit. It was a relief landing ground for RAF Swinderby until 1958.
It was home to: 455 Squadron and 1654 Heavy Conversion Unit.
Aircraft flown included: Manchester, Stirling, Lancaster and Martinet.
Wartime losses: 179

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Contributor

Hugh Donnelly

Rights

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Title

RAF Skellingthorpe [concept]

Description

RAF Skellingthorpe was in Lincolnshire, two miles south-west of Lincoln. It opened in 1941 as part of 5 Group Bomber Command. The station closed in 1955.
It was home to: 50 Squadron, 61 Squadron and 455 Squadron.
Aircraft flown included: Hampden, Wellington, Manchester and Lancaster.
Wartime losses: 1019

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Contributor

Trevor Hardcastle

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.